G/TBT/N/UGA/1565  
15 March 2022  
(22-2272) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if dif ferent from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Milled rice; 
Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed (HS 100630); Cereals, 
pulses and derived products (ICS 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
464:2022, Milled ric e — Specification, First Edition (20 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements and 
methods of sampling and test for milled rice of the varieties grown from Oryza spp. 
intended for human consumpti on. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization ; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
2. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
3. ARS 858, Rough (paddy) rice — Specification  
4. ARS 859, Brown rice — Specification  G/TBT/N/UGA/1565  
 
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  5. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  
6. ISO 605 , Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, 
and species and variety — Test methods  
7. ISO 712 , Cereals and cere al products — Determination of moisture content — 
Routine reference method  
8. ISO 5223, Test sieves for cereals  
9. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
10. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
11. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrom etric method  
12. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci 
(Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -
Parker agar medium  
13. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination o f aflatoxin B 1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B 1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High 
performance liquid chromatographic method  
14. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and s erotyping of Salmonella — Detection of Salmonella 
spp 
15. ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count 
technique in products with water activity less than or equ al to 0.95  
16. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
17. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP -AES  
18. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
19. EAS 128:2011, Milled rice — Specification  
20. United States Standards for Milled Rice , Updated July 2005  
21. ISO 7301:2011, Rice — Specification  
22. Malawi Standard, MBS 179:1988, Rice — Specification  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  June 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/UGA/1565  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://w ww.unbs.go.ug  
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